Garmin watch thingy for running

I wish I could swim properly, a goal that has been on the list for years.

Had to look at trusty garmin reports for speed, tend to think and work in pace, last year my average speed was 5.9 this year so far my max speed is 5.7 - that include walks but is still quite shameful. It's sweet how proud I am of an activity that I am actually shit at!

My 5 minute speed is 5.4 to 5.8 ish mph
Aint exactly fast :(
Is being short an excuse?

Mimi is quite something, and yes very interesting that women start to equalize and then overtake men with the very long distance.

Same with swimming I believe, that's why I liked swimming, I could often keep up with athletic looking men twice my size :o

anyway lazysuzanne, you probably actually RUN for 5 minutes, I am really slow almost the slowest person in the world

ok, it's only a bit beyond 26.2 (although sometimes get quite anxious about the marathon distance, probably from a brief period of indiscriminately running for hours last summer, my body thinks I am trying to kill it ) but all being well should run more than half of 50k on Saturday

it is exciting to daydream about how far I might be able to run, am a big fan of Mimi Anderson (my guru is friends with and has run with her on some of those mad races) she is just amazing, and inspiring by sort of running her way through and largely out of anorexia

it's also fascinating that women are such relative newcomers to distance running and yet the further you get beyond the marathon the better than men they are

I want my Garmin NOW (stamps feet-damn crochet goodies tempting me to buy them & not put money toward garmin!) I'm with you Mitchy1nge -if I get through the marathons in one piece I'm going for an ultra!

50K!!
bloody hell
how can a human being run that far, my sciatica starts to play up if I run for more than about 5 minutes at a time :(

50K!!
bloody hell
how can a human being run that far, my sciatica starts to play up if I run for more than about 5 minutes at a time :(

I'm probably just repeating cliches and stereotypes so ignore me

no seriously I've heard that extreme endurance stuff can suppress testosterone in men?

maybe your running guru does it to calm him down a bit

is that true about ultra runners? my running guru does stupidly long ultras but he doesn't seem to have any problems in that department

I like them because they can be relied upon to think nothing of accompanying someone on a 3 hour + run and just chat and eat sandwiches on the way

I think I might contemplate a 50k if I survive the marathons this year

Woodburner I will try twirling round with my Garmin to see if that helps. I only got it at Xmas and haven't had much chance to play with it. I've been sticking it in the window to find current location but I remember now that when I just wore it round the house and then tried I had a quicker result. Also interesting that it struggles to find a signal if not much charge left. Will look at the MN connection group if I ever get onto the Garmin website.

hmm, ultramarathoner, I'm thinking low testosterone and not quite the Italian stallion?
then again a physio could be very useful so def worth keeping in your collection

mmm, he is a physio and does ultras (100k)

I googled him a bit more widely and he is not actually that hot, but am collecting ultramarathoners in mediterranean countries so hooray for me

my phone is much worse than the garmin, and when I first started running round our fields it didn't have a signal and I couldn't keep records of how far and how slow etc

I find standing on the spot and rotating 90deg every 20 seconds or so helps it to find the satellites. They can be slow sometimes though... My phone does do GPS but the Garmin is more accurate.

ohh! does garmin connect double as a hook up site:o

my garmin annoys me to DEATH sometimes

it routinely stops altogether when I just want to pause it and it's not always worth resuming just for another half a mile or so, it can take about 87 years to get a signal unless it's plucked fresh from the charger and tonight for example it has logged the excitements of new running club fragments when it was supposed to pause and resume and so I just gave up even trying eventually

but I still love it, and I found a TEAM TIGER running club on garmin connect and joined it and now have a new well hot Italian runner to chat with on FB, meno male!

yes my Garmin often takes a while to locate the satellite, my phone is much better in that respect

I am waiting for my new Garmin Forerunner 220. I shall come and join Team MN Connection when I have info I need.

The DCRainmaker website is excellent for working out how these watches really work.

I treated myself to the purple Garmin Forerunner 10 for Xmas. I got it on Amazon's Black Friday for £59.99 . It is very simple to use but does anyone else find it takes a while to get their location at the start of a run? I have had to resort to using other running apps on my phone on a couple of occasions as the Garmin just hasn't got started up.

oh it works now eau

finally!

this is great am stalking adding you all

it is a real incentive to get back to logging serious miles and maybe work on my pace, am always the slowest in a group

I can see three people now. I changed my settings but I think that previous activities are still hidden. I'm going for a run tomorrow so I'll see what happens then.

oh yes it's working now

I transferred as a user on someone else's garmin using my actual name, because I had no idea it would ever be this public it was just me sharing someone's gadget

it hasn't even got 2 of my pbs on it (yet)

I've just joined - I can see a couple of others

I can see caz as well now?

I run with music as well, I tend to sing along with the music in my head, I tend to check my pace etc at the end of each track - then as I know the music well, I know how long until the next check.

I guess you can all work out where I work now!